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Former Bitcoin Exchange CEO Sentenced for Selling Bitcoins for Silk Road Drug Purchase

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  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHARLIE SHREM, the former Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange company, and the former Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in knowingly […]

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RICO Indictments Over Mexican-Mafia Related LA Street Gangster

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          LOS ANGELES – A task force investigation into the street gang that has terrorized the Ramona Gardens housing complex in Boyle Heights for decades has resulted in a federal racketeering indictment and the arrest this morning of 25 members and associates of the criminal enterprise.         During a law enforcement operation this morning,

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Holsey Executed Despite Disability and Alcoholic Lawyer

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Arguments that his intellectual disability should see Robert Wayne Holsey reprieved from the death penalty failed before the US Supreme Court and Holsey was killed by lethal injection Tuesday night. Lower courts had already rejected Holsey’s lawyers’ arguments that an intellectual disability and the fact that his trial lawyer was an alcoholic meant he should

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Former Madoff Executive Bonventre Gets 10 Years For His Role

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  LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL BONVENTRE, the former Director of Operations for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 10 years in prison for his role in Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the largest in

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EU Member Wanting Google Breakup Tied to Law Firm With Same Interests

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A German member of the European parliament angling to breakup Google is a member of a law firm representing German publishing interests that have been keen to reduce Google’s influence. Potential conflicts like working at a law firm are barred by the United States Congress, though permitted in some American state legislatures. European law has

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Robots, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Firms

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Ever imagined a robotic future for law firms – a place where robots and artificial intelligence are in complete command and where lawyers as we know them are, well, almost irrelevant? Well, imagine harder.  Because that state of what has been described as “structural collapse” is coming according to a report on the future of

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“Going Clear” on Scientology and the Lawyers It Needs

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Film-makers who “lawyer up” prior to the release of their projects are not particularly new, but in the case of HBO’s new documentary about the development of Scientology and its adherents, HBO have recruited positively platoons of lawyers – like 160 who are preparing for what the company believes will be an inevitable lawsuit. “We

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